Devante

Sunday 30th March

I arrived back from Serpents Hold too late on Sunday to attend the final event of the Vesperian Olympics and the Ceremony, but the Duke informed me that Vesper won, with Skara Brae second and us (Trinsic) in third. Apparently there was some confusion over the start time of the final triathalon event, so some competitors missed it, smells of another Vesperian plot to win to me.

After a quick stop in Trinsic i then travelled to Moonglow to see what the fuss about this magical machine was. When i arrived there were hundreds of people there, all decked out in their finest fighting gear and some accompanied by their pet Dragons and Rune beetles, i felt a bit small being on foot while everyone else appeared to be on some fancy mount.
I was later joined by Gwen, Cearul, Lydia, Kaelyn and Stewan and we waited... and waited.... and waited some more for something to happen, then suddenly there was huge blinding flash that left me somewhat stunned for a minute or two, suddenly we were confronted by many winged etheral warriors and fetid essence clouds, the huge crowd was scattered in the mass confusion of battle, all over moonglow people fell.
After about an hour of fighting black smoke began pouring from the magical machine engulfing me so that i could not see, all of a sudden there was a huge explosion and i was blasted away from the machine into the wall of a nearby building, i recovered my senses after a few minutes only to discover a huge crater in the middle of what used to be Moonglows finest beer garden. In the center of this crater was a black gateway, obviously some sort of corrupted rift in our world. Many foolish warriors dived straight in without a thought, i took my time and waited but soon people began to return from the other side, so i went in... i found myself in moonglow again, only it was moonglow before the explosion and during the battle against the etherals, i fought on for a little while but felt somewhat exhasuted after fighting the same battle twice, so returned back through the gateway and to the safety of home.
I'm not really sure what to make of the events that occured, it seems the magical machine opened somesort of alternative moonglow trapped inside a sort of snowglobe. Perhaps the machine was intended to save the real moonglow from the same fate as Magincia...

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